Cornell vs. Princeton (5-3 FINAL)

[ninian '72]

Princeton WAS a talented squad that year.  E.g., Washington Capitals forward Jeff Halpern was on their roster at the time.  Halpern's an interesting story.  Grew up in hockey hotbed Washington, D.C.  (actually Potomac, MD). Princeton was probably the only D1 hockey school far enough south for him to appear on their radar.  Halpern's sophomore year (the previous), Princeton was knocked out of the NCAA's by eventual champion Michigan.  The year after their NCAA championship, Princeton tied for the Ivy hockey title with Yale!

[Tub(a)]

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:

 Best team Princeton has had in years.  Cornell played pretty well, particularly the forwards.  The defensemen had an off weekend though.[/q]

I think we have to get used to Princeton doing well. They are only graduating four players this year, and none of those players are particularly good. If they can improve their goaltending, they could legitimately compete in a couple years.

[billhoward]

Based on these weekend results of the top 15, doesn't look like a whole lot of change. Maybe the top spots shuffle, except #1 Minnesota and #3 Colorado College splitting a series is not an improbable outcome. In the 10 to 15 bracket, all winners except a T-W for #10 Maine and an L-L for #14 Minn-Duluth (but to #4 Wisconsin). Looks like Cornell heads into exams around #12 and that seems about right given our defensive excellence and sometimes credible offense.

Can't believe Vermont is on such a long winning [correction: unbeaten] streak. How could we have blown a 2-0 lead to them last month?

Nice to see a small school like CC back near the top. I still wish it had been CC-Cornell for the title in 2003. Would've had the final game announcers blathering on about big school, small school academic excellence, yada yada.

[edited to changed winning to unbeaten]

[CowbellGuy]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
Can't believe Vermont is on such a long winning streak.[/q]
They're on a 4 game winning streak. I think perhaps you meant unbeaten streak.